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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Wreath - Writing paper Wreath [wrathe; rathe] A metal ring forming a holder for a spindle or AXLE. In a quotation dated 1733, the OED shows how it operated; … and box; wrighting box] A small BOX for containing WRITING PAPER and other writing requisites such as PENs. Such boxes …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bratton and Orleton townships both extend east of it. 88 In 1882 Wrockwardine civil parish contained 4,762 a. (1,927 ha.), including 515 a. in Wrockwardine Wood and 92 a. of detached moorland north of … site with Bronze Age ring ditches and Iron Age or Romano-British ditches and enclosures. 3 Another possible …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) WROCKWARDINE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the … of the Britons, various discoveries having been made of British coins, and of fragments of brass armour and military … town, affords one of the finest prospects in England. Some paper is manufactured at Basted. The market has been …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… John Poole (or Pole) and Henry Bynnell were schoolmasters in the late 17th century 58 and Richard Poyner from 1702. 59 … prepared destitute girls for domestic service in the colonies. 89 The Royal National Institute for the Blind ran a … Ibid. (1900), 295; (1905), 306; advt. in Penny Illustr. Paper, 1891 (copy in S.P.L., class L 33.7 v.f.). Inf. from …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… N.E. of Cirencester) As well as the evidence for Romano-British occupation noted below, isolated finds of Roman … They are as follows: a. Several Roman coins 1 were found in the garden of Heath Hill House (SP 18472278), mile E. of … including samian, calcitegritted ware and mortaria, in arable. The limestone slabs, which must denote former …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Castle St, Bristol, cm and u (181819). Trading at no. 10 in 1818 and no. 8 in 1819. [D] Yale, Elihu, London, cm, … nigh Ouse Bridge, Agent for John Devenport & Co.; printed paper available for room hanging. [York app. reg. and freemen … 1812 and 1830. Yates, Thomas, Manchester, u, cm, paper hanging warehouseman (181134). Addresses given at 21 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yaddlethorpe - Yazor Y Yaddlethorpe YADDLETHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of Bottesford, union of Glandford-Brigg, E. … comprises 733 a. 3 r. 6 p. The common lands were inclosed in the year 1794. Yafforth YAFFORTH, a chapelry, in the … in the manufacture of flintglass and the finer sorts of British china, is obtained for exportation from some pits on …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… N.E. of Cirencester) Disjointed traces of a terrace-way in Streetfold lie along the N. side of copse banks between … (1) from S.W. (map, p. 25, s.v. Chedworth). (1) Romano-British Settlement (SP 06051390 06151395) in Yanworth Wood lies on almost level ground. It is marked by …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Yarlington YARLINGTON Yarlington in 1838 The parish of Yarlington, the derivation of whose … 73 lies 6 km. south of Bruton. It is roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest … in the parish but what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part of a series of medieval …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of … from a builder's yard and two were sold in 1914 to the British Museum and to the Victoria and Albert Museum … A. Evans, 'Yarnton Yesterday and Today', Yarnton Quarterly Paper, xi: copy in Bodl. G.A. Oxon. c 317/15. O.R.O., MS. …